tar -cvzf filename.tar.gz /mnt/win_cwill do it because the -z parameter will automatically use gzip to do the compression.

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Thanks Peachy, it's done ! BrunoPS: After a remark from AbeL a slight change has been made in the "Tricks in KDE Home ". ( for those of you who print these tips, you may want to print these two; backup windows and tricks KDE, again ! )

tar -cvzf filename.tar.gz /mnt/win_cwill do it because the -z parameter will automatically use gzip to do the compression.

D'oh!I forgot you can invoke Gzip from Tar. Don't use the command much except in script files that once written who needs to look at them again...:)There is a reason my copy of Linux in a Nutshell is so dogeared. Who can remember all this stuff.

Nathan Williams, N-Line Computers

How to kill a programmer: Give him a shampoo bottle. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

If, after going through all the pain of installing your Nvidia drivers, your system boots up and shows you the Nvidia splash, you have that feeling: ¨YES, I did it !¨ It then you would like to know the actual numbers, the Frames Per Seconds ( FPS ) here is the trick to do it.

In a console as normal user:

$ glxinfo | grep rendering

This should return: ¨direct rendering: Yes¨

Now type:]

$ glxgears

( If you get an error message you have to install ¨MESA¨ and the ¨MESA demo package¨ it´s on your CD )

If gears is installed a window will pop up with turning wheels in it, just drag it a bit to the side and watch your console all kind of numbers will appear:

Here are the results of a thread that invited everybody to send in their favorite keyboard shortcuts.

I started off myself to give an example:
Ctrl+F1 to Ctrl+F5 = to change desktops I am using at the same time
Ctrl+r = to refresh Mozilla or Galeon
F9 = to get mail in Evolution
Ctrl+r = to reply a mail in Evolution
Ctrl+Enter = send mail in Evolution

Greengeek did send us:
For lefthanders with arthritis one click and hit enter is easier than a double click. Only works well for leftys unless you can get a lefty keyboard.
OK it's a piece of useless information but if you've ever tried a double click on a cold morning you'll know exactly what I mean.

And closing of the series myself again:
F11 = fullscreen ( in Mozilla browser)
Ctrl+w = close tab ( in mozilla browser )
ctrl+d = bookmark page ( in mozilla browser )
Ctrl+s = save ( in OpenOffice.org, press it from time to time if you don´t want to be retyping your text all the time ! )

I had to come to the conclusion, that keyboard shortcuts are not as popular as they used to be, people just love their mouse and the more buttons it gets, the less they start to use the board that has ALL the buttons on it.

Bruno

*anyone wishing to see his name added to the list above, just send me a PM with your shortcuts and I will edit them in

Here is the full official list of Knoppix cheatcodes and other useful information.
For all of you still having troubles running this unique distro from CD.
Most of you will never need this, just because on most hardware Knoppix does not need anything else then: ¨ knoppix lang=en¨ to get the English version.

If your KNOPPIX CD makes strange noises during boot, or you see
frequent errors like "cloop: read error", or programs on your KDE
desktop keep crashing randomly, then your CD image is probably defective
or incomplete, or your CD-burner created a defective CD due to wrong
writing speed or bad media. This is the most common error reported.
Please boot with "knoppix testcd" to check if the CD is OK, and/or even
better, verify the MD5 checksums that are present on the mirrors before
writing the CD. Also, please read the KNOPPIX-FAQ.

In case of a failing hardware autodetection, try booting with any of
the "no-" options as shown in the table above, like in
knoppix noagp noddc noapm noapic nodma nopcmcia noscsi nousb
to skip some critical parts of the autodetection system.

The "noswap" option is useful for a forensic analysis without touching
existing swap partitions.

Some Boards apparently don't pass the proper memory size to the
linux-kernel. It may cause the message "Panic: cannot mount root file
system" and the system hangs. Use "knoppix mem=128M" to solve that
problem if your system has 128MByte memory for example (caution:
you MUST use a capital "M" here).

The "expert" mode provides a very simple and not yet well tested interface
to loading additional Kernel modules from floppy disks (ext2 or vfat),
plus interactive configuration of mouse/keyboard/soundcard/xserver.
"expert" mode supports the same boot options as "knoppix".

The "floppyconfig" or "myconfig=/dev/partition" options allow you to
reconfigure the system after autoconfiguration by running a bourne
shell script called "knoppix.sh" from the root directory on the given
device (or floppy). There is a GUI to create such a configuration
floppy disk calles "saveconfig" (also located in the KDE menu under
"KNOPPIX", but experts also know how to do this by creating their own
shellscripts. From Version 2.1 and up, a file called "knoppix.sh", if
located in the toplevel KNOPPIX directory on CD, will also be executed
at startup. This makes ist easier to create customized versions without
having to change anything on the compressed filesystem KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX.

Starting from Version 2.0, SCSI-Emulation is active for all CD-Roms,
so IDE CD-Writers should work with the installed versions of cdrecord
and cdrdao (or the graphical frontends thereof, cdbakeoven, xcdroast
and gcombust).

If your BIOS does not support el torito booting from CD, you can create
a bootable floppy disk by issuing (on Linux)
dd if=mounted_cdrom_directory/KNOPPIX/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k
or, in case of DOS, use the rawrite.exe program provided in the
KNOPPIX directory on CD.

If you wish to remaster the CD, please don't forget to specify
-b KNOPPIX/boot.img
for the german version of the bootfloppy, or
-b KNOPPIX/boot-en.img
for the english version, as option to mkisofs. Otherwise your CD
won't be bootable. The directory KNOPPIX, containig the compressed
filesystem file "KNOPPIX", must be located in the top level
directory of the CD.

Caution: X-Screensaver: Don't start xlock or any screensaver that
requires a password. There are no default passwords on KNOPPIX,
i.e. all accounts are LOCKED unless you explicitly set a password.
See also README_Security.txt about this issue.
If you accidentially hit the screensaver button in KDE,
switch to one of the textconsoles by Control-Alt-F1 and kill
the screensaver (or just set a password for the knoppix user).

If you would like to edit your X-Server configuration manually
(/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 for XFree86 V4.x), use "knoppix 2" to boot
into runlevel 2 (textmode only) and type "ls /usr/X11R6/bin/XF*"
to see a list of all available X-Servers. Once you verified
that your X-Server is working correctly, you can run the X startup
script with "/etc/init.d/xsession start".

Sorry to disturb tips thread but I don't recall sending you any keyboard shotcuts??

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Zox did send us:For lefthanders with arthritis one click and hit enter is easier than a double click. Only works well for leftys unless you can get a lefty keyboard.OK it's a piece of useless information but if you've ever tried a double click on a cold morning you'll know exactly what I mean.

I am not using any keyboard shortcuts since it would be too much for me to handle.At work I've got used to Mac shotcuts, on Windows they are not that intuitive but I remembered couple of them and now Linux, .. no way.My small brain will burst in flames if I acquire any more shortcuts.

For those of you who first want to check if their hardware is supported under Linux, before trying to install a distro: Check out a ¨Live CD¨.
Live CD´s are distro´s that run completely from CD, nothing is written to harddisk, no real install, but a fully functional operating system.
You have to see it to believe it, in less then 10 minutes, you´ll have a Linux desktop.
The really BIG advantage of a Live CD is the checking of supported hardware, once you see that your internet connection, monitor, keyboard, mouse, sound etc. are functioning, you can be sure that the distro you will choose after will support those items as well.

Let´s say you are browsing Scot´sNewsletterForum using your brand new Firebird in Linux.
And suddenly you would like to have some nice music in the background, but all your favorite music is stored on your Windows C:\My Music . . . .

No problem, just start ¨xmms¨ ( the Linux ¨winamp¨ ) click on the top left corner and select ¨play directory¨. You will get a window where you can browse /mnt ( will take a bit of time, just be patient ) /win_c and then My Music or any subdirectory in there, click OK and the music will start: you can play ¨London Calling¨ from the Clash and read ¨The Tips¨ from Amsterdam at the same time !

With the same trick you can also use that nice background picture stored in MY Pictures on your Windows partition as background in Linux.

Or open a document.doc (or .xls ) stored in My Documents in OpenOffice and work on them, copy them to Linux /home/bruno, drag and drop, any trick in the book.

Linux allows you full access to your C D E F etc. windows partitions, if they are Fat32 you can read and write them, NTFS formatted partitions sometimes do not allow writing to them, reading is however always possible. ( only remember as you click on /mnt it needs some time to ¨automount¨ the partitions. )

A pity it´s a one way street; from windows you can´t even see the Linux partitions, I think that they just prefer to ignore them

Bruno

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are doing these things on the command line and have to type "My Documents", Linux will read that space in the name as the end of the command (Linux has no spaces in names)
To avoid this we use the "escape sign" "\" . . so we type "My\ Documnets" . . this way Linux knows the next character is to be seen as part of the name of the file/directory and not as a space.

Sure you want to go on the internet with your Linux computer, here are however a few things you will have to take in account:

- - - Dial-in modems:

High on the list of incompatible hardware in Linux are dial-in modems, winmodems or so called software-modems.
( printers and scanners take a good second place )

Software modems are internal PCI card modems that fully depend on Windows-drivers to make the connection. These drivers are not Open Source.

An external modem is the thing you want to be able to dial your ISP.
But even not all external modems will run 100% in Linux, most of them do, however there are exceptions.
The site explaining this issue is Winmodems are no Modems ( Also have a look Here )
The best advice is, before buying a modem check the Modem Database of tested modems.
Also USB modems have issues with Linux so always do check the list !

More info on on Linux drivers for winmodems you can find: Here
For PC-tel and Conexant there are sometimes experimental Linuxdrivers available, but installing them can be extremely hard and in most cases they are only compatible with older kernel versions. So do yourself a favor and stay away from them, because every time you´ll upgrade your disto you will run into the same problems over and over again.

- - - Cable and ADSL modems:

If you´re on cable or have an ADSL ethernet-modem, all these problems won´t affect you.
( WARNING: Conexant PCI ADSL modems are incompatible ! The Speedtouch USB is supported but needs work to be done before you can get online. )

Next I will give you a list with compatible NIC´s ( fast ethernet cards )